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Interventions To Improve Excreta Disposal For Preventing Diarrhoea, Thomas F. Clasen, Kristof Bostoen, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Sophie Boisson, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Marion W. Jenkins, Beth Scott, Steven Sugden, Sandy Cairncross
Interventions To Improve Excreta Disposal For Preventing Diarrhoea, Thomas F. Clasen, Kristof Bostoen, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Sophie Boisson, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Marion W. Jenkins, Beth Scott, Steven Sugden, Sandy Cairncross
Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Background: Diarrhoeal diseases are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity, especially among young children in low-income countries, and are associated with exposure to human excreta.
Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of interventions to improve the disposal of human excreta for preventing diarrhoeal diseases.
Search Strategy: We searched the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group Specialized Register; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), published in The Cochrane Library; MEDLINE; EMBASE; LILACS; the metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT); and Chinese-language databases available under the Wan Fang portal, and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI-CAJ). We also handsearched relevant conference proceedings, and …